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The first case against alleged Kenyan-born serial killer Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir, who is accused of killing 18 elderly women in the Dallas area, was last week declared a mistrial.
This is after the 12 jurors selected for his capital murder trial in the 2018 smothering of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris…
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A Kenyan family is seeking answers following the death of their kin in Saudi Arabia.
Lucy Wanja died under mysterious circumstances 10 days after arriving in the Gulf state to work as a housemaid.
A few days after leaving the country for Saudi Arabia on September 12th, the family received a phone…
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Parliament Budget Office (PBO) wants Kenya to close down some embassies and instead hire foreigners to carry out the country’s diplomatic duties.
The office says the move will not only lower rent, but also reduce the cost of hosting Kenyan diplomats in foreign countries. It argues that despite…
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A Kenyan man was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Kansas City, Missouri last week.
Alex Kamau Gitahi was one of the two occupants of a semi-truck that rolled into a ditch and caught fire along a highway in the city on Wednesday afternoon.
Kansas City police said the driver lost control of the…
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A Kenyan woman based in the US could not hide her joy after seeing her son for the first time in many years.
Beatrice Wanjiku landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Saturday aboard a Kenya Airways flight.
Here, she reunited with her son Alfred Macharia after being apart for 23…
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An autopsy meant to determine what killed Dorothy Ong’era, a Kenyan woman whose body was exhumed in Texas last week has been delayed.
Dorothy’s dad David Ong’era says the family is still trying to raise funds needed to transport the remains from Dallas to Houston, where experts will conduct an…
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Bernice Kariuki, a Kenyan-born chef based in the UK is living her dreams after landing a job at Arsenal Football Club.
Bernice, who was born and raised in Jericho within Nairobi’s Eastlands area, joined the north London-based club as the first-team private chef earlier this year. She is part of a…
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The remains of Kenyan woman Dorothy Bosibori Ong’era have been exhumed from a public cemetery in Texas for a fresh autopsy and reburial.
This comes a week after Judge Brooke Allen of the Texas Probate Court gave Dorothy’s father David Ong’era the full rights to exhume her body and have an autopsy…
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Immigration Director-General Alexander Muteshi has reportedly said that lawyer Miguna Miguna is not a Kenyan citizen.
Muteshi is said to have told Miguna’s attorney Nelson Havi that the political activist lost his Kenyan citizen upon acquiring a Canadian passport.
Havi, who is the president of the…
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Lawyer Miguna Miguna says officials at the Kenyan embassy in Berlin, Germany have for the second time refused to comply with a court order to issue him with a travel document.
Through Twitter, Miguna says he visited the embassy again on Tuesday carrying a copy of the order issued by High Court…
